Saudi Arabia will be hosting the Global CyberSecurity Forum, founded and hosted by the Saudi National Cybersecurity Authority (NCA). The CyberSecurity forum will be held between 9-10 November 2022. The theme for the two-day event is Rethinking the Global Cyber Order. The Forum will address the rapidly evolving macroeconomic, geo-political, and strategic considerations shaping global cybersecurity.
The Global CyberSecurity Forum was first held in 2020, with a virtual version in 2021. In its 2022 in person event in Riyadh KSA, key decision makers, executives, will discuss five sub themes.
The themes will cover geo-cyber evolution ,which will focus on understanding the evolving international cyberspace order. Sessions will explore focus areas such as geo-technological competition and conflict, and opportunities for a stable and peaceful cyberspace.
In addition to disruption frontier, current and future cybersecurity threats will be mapped and harnessing future technologies as solutions will be explored.
Cyber economics as a theme will also be discussed pertaining to how leveraging market forces, incentives, and economic governance shape cyberspace.
In order to examine the human dimensions of cybersecurity and how it intersects with the workforce, the fourth sub-theme, future of cyberwork, will feature sessions on how to attract, retain, and foster highly skilled talent through understanding challenges and incentives and the different dimensions of competition.
The final theme under, no one left behind, seeks to bridge global cyber divides and ensure that cybersecurity benefits and supports all people and societies. Sessions will identify key challenges women face in cybersecurity and how to address root causes, how to foster greater diversity and inclusion, and how to ensure children globally can safely benefit from the opportunities presented by cyberspace.
